{"id":8779,"date":"2014-09-10T23:26:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T03:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8779"},"modified":"2014-09-10T23:26:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T03:26:18","slug":"1950s-60s-electronic-and-space-age-lounge-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8779","title":{"rendered":"1950s-60s Electronic and Space Age Lounge music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a long list of early electronic music:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevinylfactory.com\/vinyl-factory-releases\/the-greatest-electronic-albums-of-the-1950s-and-1960s-2\/\" target=\"_d\">The greatest electronic albums of the 1950s and 1960s \u2013 The Vinyl Factory<\/a>. (via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/behindtheblack.com\/behind-the-black\/points-of-information\/the-greatest-electronic-music-of-the-fifties-and-sixties\/\" target=\"_d\">Behind The Black<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>See also my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbyspace.com\/Music\/music2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Space Age Sounds\u00a0section<\/a>, which \u00a0focuses on spacey sounding jazz-orchestral style music, usually with electronic sounds included, of the 1950s and early 1960s. This music is sometimes referred to as <em>Space Age Lounge<\/em> music. Some of the it\u00a0overlaps with the Vinyl Factory&#8217;s list.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one of my Space Age Lounge classics:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iAUuUiwA7yU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a long list of early electronic music:\u00a0The greatest electronic albums of the 1950s and 1960s \u2013 The Vinyl Factory. (via\u00a0Behind The Black.) See also my Space Age Sounds\u00a0section, which \u00a0focuses on spacey sounding jazz-orchestral style music, usually with electronic sounds included, of the 1950s and early 1960s. This music is sometimes referred to as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8779\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1950s-60s Electronic and Space Age Lounge music<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-arts","category-space-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2hB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8639,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8639","url_meta":{"origin":8779,"position":0},"title":"All sorts of sounds of space","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's an overview of \"space sounds\", i.e. naturally produced radio signals from the planets, deep space, meteors, etc converted to audio:\u00a0The spooky sounds of space: \u00a0Since the 1950s, probes sent into space have been sending back data that reveal eerie sounds from the vastness of the galaxy.\u00a0- CNET. 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